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Bug 153761

Summary:	CAN-2005-0967 jabber DoS
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	gaim	Assignee:	Warren Togami <wtogami>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	impact=moderate,public=20050328,reported=gaim,reported=20050405
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-04-05 18:12:12 UTC

A jabber DoS was reported in gaim.  This issue allows a malicious jabber user to
crash a gaim session if the victim cancels a special file transfer twice.

http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/?id=15
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1172115&group_id=235&atid=100235

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-04-05 18:16:08 UTC

This issue also affects RHEL3

Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2005-04-12 13:56:40 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-365.html